Paris, June 19. The situation in the Far East is the main preoccupation of the press here today. The "Petit Journal" warns that it will be difficult to avoid an eventual explosion in the Far East if "one continues to amuse oneself playing with matches round barrels of powder,"
The paper remarks, however, that the Anglo-Japanese affair in Tientsin can and ought to be solved, because basically it is in the interests of the two countries to keep normal relations with each other.
"L'Epoque" says that effective economic sanctions must be supported by arms and that is why particular importance is attached to the meeting of the British and French commanders at Singapore.
M. Pertinax, writing in "L'Ordre," considers that it would not be difficult for Japan to take the Tientsin and Shanghai areas by force of arms, but that sooner or later her conquest would be subject to a peaceful or warlike decision in Europe and she would not be able to withstand coer. cive economic measures by Great Britain, France and the United States.—Reuter.
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